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502 CXXII | stupidity and folly is now blowing over the world. Those who 503 CXXXV | Gaulois of this morning, it is blunt and plain. They call me 504 XLIX | live. Far from becoming blunted my sensibilities are sharper; 505 CLXV | console myself a little in blurting out two or three dogmatic 506 CLV | become exquisite.~You are boasting, moreover, when you undertake 507 XX | personalities. I have been a boatman on the Nile, a leno in Rome 508 CCCII | souls will pass over their bodies, so much the worse! But, 509 CCXVIII | She would not have much bodily care to give, as my mother 510 CLXXXVIII | ignorance! what a mess! “Boiled or roasted, same thing!” 511 CCLXXIX | had taken a walk in the Bois de Boulogne, had dined at 512 LXVII | G. Sand~I think that the Bois-Dore is going well, but I don’ 513 CLXXXIX | going to present himself boldly to the elections of Paris.~ 514 LX | well, except for thunder bolts, when I fall on my bed for 515 CCLXII | reaction, have gone over to Bonapartism. One needs a fine dose of 516 CCLXXXVII | troubadourish) has become a sad bonehead.~It is in order not to bore 517 XL | nothing restrains them, those boneheads!~Have you noticed that there 518 CCLVII | Bouilhet!~I adore your “Pierre Bonin.” I have known people like 519 CCXXXIII | cannot refer you to the bookshop that you need for borrowing 520 CLXXVII | follow Spain and Italy, and boorishness (pignouflism) begins!~What 521 CCLXX | Chennevieres gave me a good boost. Except for him I should 522 XLI | ask me the address of the bootmaker, my maid did not want to 523 CCXCIX | myself to putting on my boots, so that I can go to present 524 CCI | was even in an exaltation bordering on madness!~I have met the 525 XVII | I maintain that cynicism borders on chastity. We shall have 526 CCLVI | Chateauroux, very comfortably borne along in your carriage at 527 CCXXXIII | bookshop that you need for borrowing books. I send for such things 528 XLI | shall recommend Mademoiselle Bosquet to whom I can, but that 529 CXXIV | midst of this hard work. I botanize and I bathe in a little 530 LXII | tell myself that I write BOTCHED literature. I have finished 531 XLVIII | wrote to me that you WERE BOTHERED about money matters, I opened 532 CCXLI | history, including that of the Botocudos, anything more imbecile 533 CCLXXII | dozen oysters from Ostend, a bottle of champagne frappe, three 534 CLXXII | astonishes me, and I wallow in a bottomless melancholy, in spite of 535 CLXIV | a little water and wine. Bouillon did not go down. At last 536 CCLXXIX | taken a walk in the Bois de Boulogne, had dined at Magny’s, etc.; 537 CCLXI | pursued me with books and bouquets. I pretended to be dead 538 CXCI | of your friend Michel de Bourges, Bardoux, mayor of Clermont-Ferrand.~ 539 Introd | of the terrace. Monsieur Bournisien from time to time blew his 540 CLVII | invented by altering that of Bouvaret.~The first sentence of our 541 XXXVI | distinguished works notably Madame Bovarie of which I think I am capable 542 CLVII | army doctor named Madame Bovaries who was like Madame Bovary, 543 XVI | nevertheless he can make Bovarys in which every little cranny 544 CLXXIII | are trying to dig into the bowels of the earth to forget all 545 CCLXXII | orchestra seats and three boxes.) I did not even see the 546 CCLXXVI | Michel Levy) rends me at the Brabant dinner, as does that excellent 547 XXXV | without rest.~Those who brag of that, are bluffing a 548 CLXXXIV | be vindictive,—all that bragging, coupled with poltroonery, 549 XXXV | thrust out our roots and branches when and how we can. Great 550 CCXXXIV | myself to assume, as the good Brantome would say, that you were 551 CXLIV | our continual idols, these brats.~Yesterday, I received, 552 CCLXXXII | pretty metaphor) and that “braving the publicity of the theatre” 553 CCCXIII | hands heartily and say “bravo” to you again, and faithfully 554 CCLXXII | eloquently in the lobbies. The “bravos” of a devoted few were drowned 555 XXXV | love for them is a little bread-and-butter and art a little pot-boiler, 556 CCI | me a dolt! That is where BREADTH OF VIEW leads you.~They 557 XLVI | without a tangible cause, a breakdown which has been threatening 558 CCLIV | one’s sense of smell by breathing them. But I do not think 559 CXXXII | Impossible, dear old beloved. Brebant is too far, I have so little 560 Introd | in Chateaubriand. He is bred to an admiration of eloquence, 561 CLXXXVIII | lances to fight against the breech-loaders!~Ah! it would have been 562 XXXIII | certain moments, but the breeze in continuing would increase 563 LXXXV | level with Le Voyage en Bretagne by the great Veuillot, in 564 XVII | Brittany, not towards the Bretons who seem to me repulsive 565 CLXXXV | retreat of Brunswick gained by bribery through Danton and Westermann. 566 CCLXII | Paris, in Saint-Gratien, in Brie, and in Beauce, hunting 567 Introd | details of a modern bedroom: a brief brightness, night and the 568 Introd | about his “carcase.” His briefer black moods he might acknowledge 569 CXCVII | cowardly, the soldier always brigand, the peasant always stupid? 570 CXCVII | then farmers and soldiers. Brigandage crowned with success gave 571 CCCVI | are diamonds that sparkle brightly in this polychrome. Moreover, 572 Introd | modern bedroom: a brief brightness, night and the odor of carrion, 573 XXXIII | being given me. I await the brilliance of a new state of my intellect 574 Introd | James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of 575 CCCII | the healthiest and the broadest part saw in it a severe 576 Introd | Bovary and Salammbo is, broadly speaking, Flaubert’s sense 577 CCLXXVIII | Was not the fall of the Broglie ministry pleasing to you? 578 CCLXXXVII | have ... I don’t know what. Bromide of potassium has calmed 579 CCLXXIV | the walls, pictures and bronzes.” But there is nothing at 580 Introd | expresses a lifetime of brooding on the significance of life 581 Introd | more slowly. For weeks she broods in silence, fearing to augment 582 CXCVII | great efforts in behalf of brotherhood to repair the ravages of 583 Introd | signalize her equality with her brothers in talent, she adopts male 584 Introd | up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, 585 CCLXX | abandoned, more empty, more bruised. What you said to me (in 586 CLXXXV | were and the retreat of Brunswick gained by bribery through 587 LX | meet them at the end of the Brusq. But they are birds of passage, 588 CLXXXV | from here with Dumas to Brussels from where I thought to 589 CXCVII | Ignorance, cynicism and brutality, that is all that emanates 590 CCXII | naively, that is to say brutally. And I did well.~I think 591 CCII | universal. When they talk of the brutishness of the plebe, they are saying 592 CLXXIII | do as he, and to hunt a bubbling spring fifty or a hundred 593 CLXXVIII | to get your Berrichons to buck up. Call to them: “Come 594 CLXVI | Jules Goncourt. Theo wept buckets full.~ 595 CV | that the tulip tree is in bud. Here, the peaches and the 596 CXCI | And I also did a little Buddha that I consider charming. 597 CXXI | without doubt they were all Buddhists. That is a stylish problem 598 Introd | over her effort, he never budges a jot; he has taken his 599 CCLX | dialogue, here I am starting to build the plot of another play! 600 CCCIX | her digest and sleep? in building up her strength? Your poor 601 CLXXX | die of pneumonia or of a bullet is dying just the same. 602 CCLXIV | had said in a theatrical bulletin that you were in Paris; 603 CCXXXIX | there must be bits in the bulletins, THAT WILL MAKE COPY. To 604 CCXI | us to look for knots in bulrushes. In short, I am working 605 CCXVI | of good. For I have the bump of veneration and I like 606 LXXXIX | part from being a horrible bungle. One needs to see the putting-on 607 XCVII | Heavens! Have we always been bunglers in this fair land of ours? 608 Introd | Madame Bovary: take Bovary’s bungling and gruesome operations 609 CCXLVII | headed the procession at the burial of father Pouchet last Monday. 610 Introd | for a physical retreat, he buries himself in a study of Buddhism, 611 LXXIV | appearance of living beings, of a burlesque life that is real and impossible 612 CLXXXIV | Either he hides himself or he burns you up, and it is thus with 613 CCCXVI | seemed to me that I was burying my mother the second time. 614 CCLXXVI | and by the cashier at my butcher’s! not to mention some others. 615 CCLXXX | that defies the IFS and the BUTS of human prattle. We are 616 CCXXXI | fowl, nothing but flowers, butterflies and birds all day. But where 617 Introd | Dudevant condemned to sewing on buttons; in Jacques she paints the 618 XXXI | with a mad gaiety, they buzz, they jump, they laugh, 619 Introd | period, George Sand takes her Byronic revenge upon M. Dudevant. 620 XXXV | these Don Juans who are Byrons at the same time. Don Juan 621 LXXXV | by the great Veuillot, in Ca et La. That does not prevent 622 CCLXXIII | for those who write like cab drivers. The QUESTION OF 623 XCVI | and average receipts. The cabal against the new management 624 XIV | letter, it is for something cabalistic.~ 625 CCII | distract myself? Bichat and Cabanis, who amuse me enormously. 626 XC | straight ahead, stupid as a cabbage and patient as a Berrichon. 627 LXXXI | like a dormouse in your cabin? I would like to give you 628 XXXVI | character who squandered my wax cabinet wherein were all figures 629 LVII | thinking about,” and the cabmen exasperate the bourgeois.~ 630 Introd | ribald mercenaries, the cackle of M. Homais. It is all 631 Introd | color, haunting melancholy cadences in every chapter of Flaubert; 632 XLI | also. All that was of the Cadios of the revolution who began 633 LVIII | the Jockey Club, at the Cafe Anglais, and at a lawyer’ 634 Introd | beating its wings against the cage of custom and circumstance 635 XLV | came in and cracked the cakes of ice in the Seine and 636 LXXIV | commanding the brigands of Calabria, trying to regain his throne 637 CCXXVIII | should be quieter, without callers or intruders! More than 638 CCLXXIX | of bleaching my face and calming my nerves! I don’t think 639 CXXXIV | for always. Live then as calmly as possible in order to 640 CXCV | are less punished than the calumniator of M. Favre.~In order for 641 CCXCI | geological excursion in Calvados, and that will be all.~No, 642 CCLXXXVII | the traveller, and the camel.~I spent the afternoon today 643 CCXLV | preface to the Dame aux Camelias, hasn’t he?~And you want 644 LXXXVIII | back to work. I am like the camels, which can’t be stopped 645 XCIII | the future is founded.” (Camilla Doucet.)~But my everlasting 646 CLXXII | united works like the Suez Canal are, perhaps, under another 647 CXXXV | because of pere Roque and the cancan at the Tuileries.” They 648 CCXXXVI | PRINCIPLES. Don’t laugh, very candid, childish principles which 649 CCLXXXII | happened to me on account of le Candida. I do not believe in Holbachic 650 XXXIX | hastened deliverances to burn candles before an image.~I see that 651 CXLV | armed with pistols and sword canes! And of this person, of 652 CCXLIX | going to become like the canon of Poitiers, of whom Montaigne 653 CCLXXX | He leaves tomorrow for Cantal with a servant, a tent, 654 Introd | it by painting on broad canvas a Carthaginian battle-scene 655 CCXCVIII | well, according to their capabilities, and, besides, that Perrin 656 Introd | to the tyranny of a human caprice, but to the exigencies of 657 CV | to struggle against these caprices; they interrupt me and force 658 Introd | and erratic youth may have captivated our grandfathers, George 659 C | having an adored friend, a captive in chains far away, whom 660 CXCVII | The deluge comes and death captures us. In vain you are prudent 661 CCLVI | the company we had in our car. I was consoled for it by 662 Introd | quite indifferent about his “carcase.” His briefer black moods 663 XCIX | difficulty. All my house of cards will topple over.~Three 664 CCLXXX | being well loved and well cared for in my nest. I urge Maurice 665 C | because of the foundation of careless unconventionally which was 666 CLXIV | and to friendship when one cares for that; I don’t dare to 667 CCXXXVI | has been so embraced and caressed. He is loved as much without 668 XVI | badly set, badly composed, Carnac and Erdeven have no physiognomy. 669 Introd | extraordinary at the top of a carob tree; a lion’s head stood 670 CCVII | Dumas at the premiere of Roi Carotte. You can not imagine such 671 CCLXXIX | not write in that way to a Carpentras urchin, offering a skit 672 Introd | brightness, night and the odor of carrion, a crucified lion, a dying 673 LVIII | difficulties arise. What a heavy cart of sandstone to drag along! 674 XXI | to you: “Come let’s go to Carthage or elsewhere.” But there, 675 Introd | painting on broad canvas a Carthaginian battle-scene or by photographing 676 Introd | mercenaries against the Carthaginians is evolved with the same 677 CCXXXIII | the Indre and into its icy cascades, my sixty-eight years and 678 CLXIX | living again, and that in all cases they fall back into the 679 CCLXXVI | Strasbourg, by Renan, and by the cashier at my butcher’s! not to 680 Introd | to have pierced his thick casing of masculine egotism:~“Artists 681 CV | one comes down again as Cassandra, Scapin, Mezzetin, Figaro, 682 CXXI | practical life, he loses caste and should be punished. 683 CXCIX | do in class distinction. Castes belong to archeology. But 684 LXXXI | about me than about the cat and not even so much. Tell 685 CCLXXII | accompanied by two beautiful cat-calls from the gallery gods. That 686 CLXXXVI | of nature, one of those cataclysms that happen every six thousand 687 CCVIII | world will find hunting, cataloguing, doing his daily task, and 688 CLXXX | do is to escape the next catastrophe.~Don’t let’s say that it 689 CXCVII | personalities which have become catchwords? I know only wise and foolish, 690 XXXIII | that you make. I do not catechise him without reserve, for 691 CCXXX | 13 June, 1872.~Answer me categorically, so that we may know what 692 XX | ideas. When they confuse categories, adieu, morale!~Don’t you 693 CCLXIV | to read the pamphlet by Cathelineau and the one by Segur also. 694 CCLXXXVI | himself when he weeps, as cats do when they die?~ 695 CCXXXIX | owing to the mistake of Catulle Mendes, who sent me a telegram 696 CCXXXI | leads there, will you? And Cauterets and the lake of Gaube? And 697 LXV | philosophical courage to me, is like cauterizing a wooden leg.~I embrace 698 LXIX | going to see you. But I am cautious to the point of fear. To 699 CC | CC. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 700 CCC | CCC. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 701 CCCI | CCCI. TO GEORGE SAND December, 702 CCCII | CCCII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 703 CCCIII | CCCIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 704 CCCIV | CCCIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 705 CCCIX | CCCIX. TO GEORGE SAND Sunday evening... 706 CCCV | CCCV. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday, 707 CCCVI | CCCVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 708 CCCVII | CCCVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 30th 709 CCCVIII | CCCVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Monday evening, 710 CCCX | CCCX. TO GEORGE SAND Friday evening... 711 CCCXI | CCCXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Sunday, 712 CCCXII | CCCXII. To GEORGE SAND Monday evening~ 713 CCCXIII | CCCXIII. To MAURICE SAND Tuesday 714 CCCXIV | CCCXIV. To MADAM MAURICE SAND Thursday 715 CCCXIX | CCCXIX. To MAURICE SAND Tuesday 716 CCCXV | CCCXV. To MADAM LINA SAND~Dear 717 CCCXVI | CCCXVI. To MAURICE SAND Croisset, 718 CCCXVII | CCCXVII. To MAURICE SAND Croisset, 719 CCCXVIII | CCCXVIII. To MAURICE SAND Saint-Gratien 720 CCI | CCI. TO GEORGE SAND~Never, dear 721 CCII | CCII. TO GEORGE SAND 14 November, 722 CCIII | CCIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 723 CCIV | CCIV. TO GEORGE SAND 1 December~ 724 CCIX | CCIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Friday, 725 CCL | CCL. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 726 CCLI | CCLI. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday, 727 CCLII | CCLII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 728 CCLIII | CCLIII. TO GEORGE SAND Thursday, 729 CCLIV | CCLIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 730 CCLIX | CCLIX. TO GEORGE SAND Thursday~ 731 CCLV | CCLV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 732 CCLVI | CCLVI. TO GEORGE SAND 23 April, 733 CCLVII | CCLVII. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~ 734 CCLVIII | CCLVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 735 CCLX | CCLX. TO GEORGE SAND Sunday ...~ 736 CCLXI | CCLXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 737 CCLXII | CCLXII. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 738 CCLXIII | CCLXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 739 CCLXIV | CCLXIV. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 740 CCLXIX | CCLXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 741 CCLXV | CCLXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~Your 742 CCLXVI | CCLXVI. TO GEORGE SAND January, 743 CCLXVII | CCLXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT January, 744 CCLXVIII | CCLXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Saturday 745 CCLXX | CCLXX. TO GEORGE SAND Saturday 746 CCLXXI | CCLXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 747 CCLXXII | CCLXXII. TO GEORGE SAND Thursday, 748 CCLXXIII | CCLXXIII. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday, 749 CCLXXIV | CCLXXIV. TO GEORGE SAND April, 1874~ 750 CCLXXIX | CCLXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND Kalt-Bad. 751 CCLXXV | CCLXXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 752 CCLXXVI | CCLXXVI. TO GEORGE SAND Friday evening, 753 CCLXXVII | CCLXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 754 CCLXXVIII | CCLXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 755 CCLXXX | CCLXXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 756 CCLXXXI | CCLXXXI. TO GEORGE SAND Righi, 14 757 CCLXXXII | CCLXXXII. TO GEORGE SAND Saturday, 758 CCLXXXIII | CCLXXXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 759 CCLXXXIV | CCLXXXIV. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday, 760 CCLXXXIX | CCLXXXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 761 CCLXXXV | CCLXXXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 762 CCLXXXVI | CCLXXXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 763 CCLXXXVII | CCLXXXVII. TO GEORGE SAND Paris, Saturday 764 CCLXXXVIII| CCLXXXVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 20th 765 CCV | CCV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 766 CCVI | CCVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 767 CCVII | CCVII. TO GEORGE SAND Sunday, 768 CCVIII | CCVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 769 CCX | CCX. TO GEORGE SAND~You will 770 CCXC | CCXC. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 771 CCXCI | CCXCI. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 772 CCXCII | CCXCII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thursday 773 CCXCIII | CCXCIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~Friend, 774 CCXCIV | CCXCIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 775 CCXCIX | CCXCIX. TO GEORGE SAND Paris, 11 776 CCXCV | CCXCV. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday~ 777 CCXCVI | CCXCVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 778 CCXCVII | CCXCVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 779 CCXCVIII | CCXCVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 780 CCXI | CCXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 781 CCXII | CCXII. TO GEORGE SAND~No! dear 782 CCXIII | CCXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 783 CCXIV | CCXIV. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear good 784 CCXIX | CCXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 17 785 CCXL | CCXL. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 786 CCXLI | CCXLI. TO GEORGE SAND Monday evening, 787 CCXLII | CCXLII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 788 CCXLIII | CCXLIII. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~ 789 CCXLIV | CCXLIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 790 CCXLIX | CCXLIX. TO GEORGE SAND Monday evening, 791 CCXLV | CCXLV. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday, 792 CCXLVI | CCXLVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 793 CCXLVII | CCXLVII. TO GEORGE SAND 12 December 794 CCXLVIII | CCXLVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 795 CCXV | CCXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 796 CCXVI | CCXVI. TO GEORGE SAND~What a long 797 CCXVII | CCXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 798 CCXVIII | CCXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND March, 1872~ 799 CCXX | CCXX. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset~ 800 CCXXI | CCXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 801 CCXXII | CCXXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 802 CCXXIII | CCXXIII. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday, 803 CCXXIV | CCXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 804 CCXXIX | CCXXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 7 June, 805 CCXXV | CCXXV. TO GEORGE SAND~What good 806 CCXXVI | CCXXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 807 CCXXVII | CCXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 808 CCXXVIII | CCXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND 1872~The 809 CCXXX | CCXXX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~ 810 CCXXXI | CCXXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 811 CCXXXII | CCXXXII. TO GEORGE SAND Bagneres 812 CCXXXIII | CCXXXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 813 CCXXXIV | CCXXXIV. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 814 CCXXXIX | CCXXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND Monday night, 815 CCXXXV | CCXXXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 816 CCXXXVI | CCXXXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 817 CCXXXVII | CCXXXVII. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~ 818 CCXXXVIII | CCXXXVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 819 CXCVII | different, for I have never ceased to be young, if being young 820 Introd | individual sufferings, without ceasing to be a ground of merit, 821 XXXVI | wherein were all figures of celebrities, kings, emperors, ancient 822 XC | know, whom I love greatly, Celimene, [Footnote: Madame Arnould-Plessy.] 823 CLXVI | with coffins like an old cemetery! I am having enough of them, 824 CCLIV | whom one offers that in a censer would be satisfied with 825 CCXLIV | Mademoiselle La Quintinie. The censors have declared that it is 826 C | TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, AT CEOISSET Nohant, 21 December, 1868~ 827 CCLXXXVII | Amedee Achard. The Protestant ceremonies were as inane as if they 828 CXXXV | Figaro and in Paris, by Cesana and Duranty. I most profoundly 829 CCLXXVIII | Abbey of Theleme [Footnote: Cf. Rabelais’ Gargantua.] is 830 CCIII | seeing you.—You were at Ch. Edmond’s successful play, 831 LX | should send the other to Chaillot.~A propos of gypsies, do 832 CCLXXXII | away about M. Scribe’s Une Chaine. France is ill, very ill, 833 CCIII | have left for a bed and chair, only an old garden bench. 834 CXLI | for work. Critics are a challenge that stimulates.~Poor Saint-Rene 835 CCLVII | good-for-nothing Cruchard, friend of Chalumeau. Note that name. It is a 836 LV | everything that one sees on the Champ de Mars. Never mind; someone 837 XLV | a book on Saint Perrine. Champfleury treated that subject badly. 838 XCIX | novel tells the life of Chancellor Pasquier. Thereupon, fear 839 LVIII | Trochu, and the everlasting Changarnier coming back over the water. 840 CCLXXXV | But I shall not succeed in changing you. I shall not even succeed 841 LXIV | see a countryside near the Channel, that all the world has 842 Introd | effusion of sentiment, a chant of faith. In a world more 843 Introd | escape from the meaningless chaos of existence—it is his subtly 844 CCCII | to condemn the evil, to characterize the defect, to signalize 845 CV | looking at her.~Then we played charades, had supper, and frolicked 846 Introd | and children, mingled with charging elephants and vipers, flounder 847 CCCII | complain like a poor man. Be charitable to a beggar who has his 848 CXCVII | starting point, patriotic charity, love! It is the part of 849 CCXVI | which she represents me as a charlatan who beats the drum on the 850 Introd | sentimental woman, and the charlatans of science. But as a matter 851 LXXXII | move tomorrow morning.~I am charmingly located on the Luxembourg 852 CCLXVI | to be a godfather. Madame Charpentier in her enthusiasm for Saint-Antoine 853 CCLXXII | truffle salad, coffee and a chaser. Religion and the stomach 854 XXXVII | priests) risk nothing in being chaste; on the contrary. But the 855 CCCVI | Let people show up and chastise the rascals, that is good, 856 CLXXIV | This people deserves to be chastised, and I fear that it will 857 XLVIII | is Buloz who has bought chateaux and lands with my novels. 858 CLXIX | beginning to talk. Aurore chatters and argues. She calls Plauchut, 859 LXXIV | you? I should like this chatty letter to substitute for 860 CXCVII | adherents and to deny those who cheapen and compromise your principles. 861 CXCVII | Whoever denies the people cheapens himself, and gives to the 862 CCXCIV | dear splendid old fellow, cheer up, do us a new successful 863 XLIV | Lina who have tasted your cheese, send you their regards, 864 XLII | that will do me good.~The cheeses? I don’t know at all, it 865 CCXLIX | great efforts.~I am reading chemistry now (which I don’t understand 866 Introd | preparedness,” our cheerful chemists, our scientific “intellectuals”— 867 CCXCI | task, which weighs on my chest like a burden of a million 868 CXLIV | he then more than both? Chi lo sa?—He hasn’t let himself 869 CCXCII | for we go to bed with the chickens in order to leave early 870 CXCVII | always will be so? And you chide my anguish as a weakness, 871 CXCVII | furious madness? Your chosen chiefs, your governors, your inspirers, 872 XXXIX | the anguish and labors of childbirth? That is splendid and youthful. 873 CCXC | mixture of precocity and childishness. She is nine years old and 874 CLV | a cold, I taken again by chills and anemia: I am very patient 875 XVI | between the Sphinx and the Chimaera! You are a being quite apart, 876 CLXXXVIII | their house as soon as the chimney has caught fire.~Well, I 877 LXV | still here, stuck up to my chin in the river every day, 878 CXCVIII | think that you are like a Chinaman at all, and I love you with 879 XX | of it!~Opinions chic (or chiques): namely being pro-Catholicism ( 880 CCCXIII | picture. That is one of the choicest parts of your book, together 881 XXXV | pure. It is not that he is choked by Catholic spiritualism; 882 CXLVIII | when you will come to eat a chop with me. Your old exhausted 883 CXCVII | cherished race, all of whose chords I feel vibrate in me, both 884 CCLXVI | have just read also, la Chretienne by the Abbe Bautain. A curious 885 CCLVII | theological virtues by the face of Christ appearing in the sun. What 886 CCCII | done frankly by way of a chronicle. But to withdraw one’s soul 887 CCLXXIV | my SLIPPERS, my DOG. The chroniclers have described my apartment 888 CCLXVI | baptismal font, beside the chubby-cheeked baby, the nurse and the 889 XCVII | dictatorship. They close the churches, but they raise temples, 890 CI | CI. TO GEORGE SAND Saint Sylvester’ 891 Introd | to reappear smoking black cigars in the Latin Quarter. We 892 CII | CII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1st 893 CIII | CIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 894 LXXIV | of laughter at a fly that circles about; sewing layettes, 895 CLXXXVIII | which are done. When we can circulate about again on the railroad, 896 Introd | against the cage of custom and circumstance and institutions. The external 897 CCXXXI | there without seeing the Cirque of Gavarnie, and the road 898 CCX | have COMPROMISED you in citing you among the illustrious 899 CIV | CIV. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 900 CCLXVI | I went on Sunday to the civic funeral of Francois-Victor 901 CXCI | phrases in praise of her civilizations. As for the Commune, they 902 CCCXI | him? He is somewhere near Civita-Vecchia, very much on the go and 903 CIX | CIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 904 CL | CL. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Sunday 905 CXCVII | death against those who claim to be our superiors by divine 906 CCV | receive it, and it can not be claimed, for the sender would be 907 Introd | Godwin joined Byron and Jane Clairmont in Switzerland—young revoltes, 908 CCVII | worst of the fairy plays of Clairville. The public agreed with 909 CCLXXII | even see the chief of the claque. One would say that the 910 CCLVII | massacre at Alexandria and clarified the symbolism of the fantastic 911 Introd | fluent and refluent tides, clash beneath the controversy; 912 LXXXV | source, hatred, warfare, the clashing of every interest, CAN NOT 913 XXXV | for me I have it. I love classifications, I verge on the pedagogue. 914 CXCVII | or less wealth that would classify men into two distinct parties? 915 CXCVII | idle and that the work of classifying, whatever method one desired 916 CI | impotence.~As to whether the “claustration” to which I condemn myself 917 CXCVII | recognized, are colossi of clay, as we have found to our 918 CLXXXIII | horror now) is emptied and cleaned, I shall return there; then 919 CCXII | answers, one must try to kill cleanly one’s enemy. Such is my 920 CXXXIX | evening, I am better, it is clearer. I am expecting your telegram 921 CCXII | me by the depth and the clearness of his judgment. Ah! if 922 CLXXXIX | such pluck.~When history clears up the burning of Paris, 923 CCXII | perishing from indulgence, from clemency, from COWISHNESS and (I 924 Introd | apothecary, the insipid clerk, the vapid sentimental woman, 925 CCLXXV | have confided in the Levy clerks whom I do not know! I remember, 926 CXCI | Bourges, Bardoux, mayor of Clermont-Ferrand.~I think, like you, that 927 LX | the meshes in a net very cleverly; I showed him a piece of 928 CCCIX | accepts them because of the cleverness of the execution; but afterwards?~ 929 CLI | CLI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 930 CCXLV | my niece’s garret, rue de Clichy! That is very narrow of 931 CCXXXI | mountains, the flowers, the cliffs! Does all that bore you?~ 932 CLII | CLII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 933 CLIII | CLIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 934 CCLXXXIII | above all walk. Your rainy climate makes you keep to the house. 935 XLVI | remembrance of me, you ought to climb up every fine day at noon. 936 XLVI | wager that you have not climbed up to my dear orchard which 937 CLIV | CLIV. TO GEORGE SAND 17 March, 938 CLIX | CLIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 939 XXXIII | troubadours, more or less clock-bearing or clockshaped.~Treat it 940 XXXIII | or less clock-bearing or clockshaped.~Treat it in an entirely 941 CCCV | Milton, who are absolutely closed to me; however, I quite 942 CCXXXIX | of my intimates to go. He closes the list. Whom shall I see 943 Introd | coat made, of rough grey cloth, with trousers and waist-coat 944 CCLXXX | the wind, the star, the cloud. What man dabbles in is 945 Introd | gruesome operations on the club-footed ostler’s leg, with the entire 946 Introd | with the entire village clustering agape; take the picture 947 CLV | CLV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 948 CLVI | CLVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 949 CLVII | CLVII. To MADAME HORTENSE CORNU~ 950 CLVIII | CLVIII. TO GEORGE SAND March, 1870~ 951 CLX | CLX. TO GEORGE SAND Monday morning, 952 CLXI | CLXI. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday 953 CLXII | CLXII. TO GEORGE SAND Paris, Thursday~ 954 CLXIII | CLXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 955 CLXIV | CLXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 956 CLXIX | CLXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 957 CLXV | CLXV. TO GEORGE SAND~No, dear 958 CLXVI | CLXVI. TO GEORGE SAND Sunday, 959 CLXVII | CLXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 960 CLXVIII | CLXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Saturday 961 CLXX | CLXX. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 962 CLXXI | CLXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 963 CLXXII | CLXXII. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 964 CLXXIII | CLXXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 965 CLXXIV | CLXXIV. TO GEORGE SAND. Croisset, 966 CLXXIX | CLXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND. Tuesday, 967 CLXXV | CLXXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 968 CLXXVI | CLXXVI. TO GEORGE SAND. Saturday, 969 CLXXVII | CLXXVII. TO GEORGE SAND Sunday evening~ 970 CLXXVIII | CLXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday~ 971 CLXXX | CLXXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 972 CLXXXI | CLXXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 973 CLXXXII | CLXXXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT. Nohant, 974 CLXXXIII | CLXXXIII. TO GEORGE SAND. Dieppe, 975 CLXXXIV | CLXXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 976 CLXXXIX | CLXXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 977 CLXXXV | CLXXXV. TO GEORGE SAND. Neuville 978 CLXXXVI | CLXXXVI. TO GEORGE SAND. Croisset, 979 CLXXXVII | CLXXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 980 CLXXXVIII | CLXXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND~I am answering 981 CCXLVIII | can spare you that horrid coach from Chateauroux to Nohant. 982 XX | pirate, monk, mountebank and coachman. Perhaps also even emperor 983 LX | the cliff, and I asked the coast-guard who those people were who 984 LXIV | that the population of the coasts was the best in the country, 985 Introd | attire: “I had a sentry-box coat made, of rough grey cloth, 986 LVII | as well the bourgeois in coats.~It is we and we alone, 987 CLXXXVIII | called themselves familiarly “cochonnettes.” Those girls who were of 988 L | very proud to be declared COCK by an eagle. At this moment 989 CCII | or at least deluge their cockscombs with torrents of abuse, 990 CCXCV | become an intolerable old codger, because he has been intolerant. 991 CCLXII | that they have forbidden Coetlogon’s play formally, BECAUSE 992 CLXVIII | sleep tremendously! “The coffer is good,” as the bourgeois 993 CLXVI | three now! I am gorged with coffins like an old cemetery! I 994 Introd | degree by “unity, mass, and coherence.” It must be admitted also 995 LXXIV | intervals of repose that coincide with his. He brings to it 996 CCCII | If you show him the evil coldly, without ever showing him 997 XVII | for you (it was done in collaboration with Bouilhet). But I think 998 CCXXVI | reunited and well again, I collapsed. It will be nothing, but 999 CIII | not know how to WISH my colleagues ill luck, I am in no hurry 1000 CCXLIX | winter with the idea of collecting some; but if my horrible 1001 Introd | The organ with which he collects his materials is not his 1002 CLXII | that will be taught in the colleges.~And the preface to the